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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
Something
Sees
Somebody
Wrong
Whatever
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
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Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
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All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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